♪Unity means power♪
♪The power is iron, the power is steel♪
♪But it is harder and stronger♪
♪Firing at Fascism, we fight♪
♪We'll wipe out all the systems not democratic♪
♪Toward the sun, and freedom, and new China♪
♪A country shining bright♪
♪Unity means power♪
(The deciphering was complete)
(Do not answer)
(All units should fill out transmission diaries.)
(All unit heads should attend the meeting in the debriefing room.)
(Over.)
(According to the weather forecast,)
(from 8:00 AM today to 8:00 AM tomorrow,)
(in parts of the northeast,)
(the maximum temperature will be 9 degrees centigrade;)
(the minimum will be minus 3.)
(Clear to overcast. Northwest gentle breeze.)
(Chinese Astronomical Almanac) (At 5:00 this afternoon,)
(1979)
(a sanitary inspection will be conducted on the equipment rooms)
(and the main engine cabinet.)
(Please get prepared in advance.)
(Latitude)
(Longtitude)
♪At the end of time♪
♪Spring comes and she leaves♪
♪Why stop again♪
♪At the end of time♪
♪Spring comes and she leaves♪
♪I can't tell the lie♪
♪Fireworks in the air♪
♪At the night when nobody repented♪
♪Fell slowly♪
♪At the end of time♪
♪Waves roar a song♪
♪Who gave everything they had♪
♪At the end of the beginning♪
♪You asked me what was freedom♪
♪Who lost what they owned♪
=Three-Body=
=Episode 1=
(After nearly 6 months of hard work,)
(the selection of torchbearers for the Beijing Olympic Games is now finished.)
(Summer, 2007) (From all over the country,)
(a total of 11,534 torchbearer candidates have been elected.)
(Preparations for the Olympic Games are underway.)
(Beijing Olympic International Forum started in Renmin University on 24th.)
(This is one of the events of the 5th Beijing 2008 Olympic Culture Festival.)
(Over 30 Olympic executives, experts and scholars from home and abroad)
(will discuss on the two-day forum the Olympic games and humanistic concepts...)
(Physics doesn't exist.)
(The investigation scope has been designated.)
(Field staff should keep order, keep the scene intact, and evacuate the onlookers.)
(Police) (No trauma on the body.)
(The forensic team, trace analysts, and photographers have arrived at the scene.)
(Others are conducting preliminary investigation and collecting evidence.)
Captain Zhang, the victim's identity is confirmed.
She was a physicist, who seemed to be famous.
Cause of death?
No sign of homicide. We found sleeping pills at the scene.
According to the forensic expert,
it was suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills.
(Evidence Bag)
(Command center, we've arrived at the scene.)
(Based on preliminary information, the victim was Yang Dong, who died)
(on the bed in her bedroom.)
(No trauma is found on the body.)
What's going on?
The scene has been taken over by the military.
Please cooperate.
The military?
(Increase energy) Why is he here?
Hasn't he been suspended?
This is a military order.
Thanks, comrade.
Please handle the transition quickly.
Thanks for cooperation.
At this time of crisis, he's still playing Snake.
Captain Shi always says that handling a case is like playing Snake.
(Energy exhausted)
We should be both persistent and patient.
Shen, have you finished investigating the scene?
Captain Shi, preliminary investigation indicates suicide.
Here's the evidence.
Captain Shi, the commander in chief said, tomorrow's meeting would still be on.
Physics doesn't exist, again?
We have to invite several scientists in person.
I'll bring them over.
Invite them.
(Everyone, today is June 5th.)
(Welcome to Interact with Science.)
(Another regrettable incident has occurred in scientific circles.)
(Yang, a famous physicist,)
(committed suicide at home on June 3rd at night.)
(It is known that several scientists committed suicide)
(in the past two years.)
(It's a disaster for scientific circles.)
(So, we've invited Pan Han, a famous biologist,)
(to share his views on this matter.)
(Hello, Mr. Pan.)
(Hello.)
(You correctly predicted the ecological disaster)
(caused by genetically modified crops.)
(Now, what do you think of the scientists' suicides recently?)
(I always believe that the over-development of science and technology)
(is a disease of human society.)
(The explosive development of technology is like the rapid spread of cancer cells.)
(In the end, the hosts will both be killed.)
(You mean...)
(Who can survive the earth's destruction?)
Coming.
(As a scientist, I've only realized it earlier than others.)
(So in your opinion, what should we do to avoid...)
You are...
Are you Wang Miao?
Excuse me, you can't smoke here.
Captain Shi.
Sorry, Professor Wang.
We're with the Public Security Bureau.
This is Captain Shi Qiang.
Fine.
The hallway, we can talk in the hallway.
Sorry, you can't smoke there either.
(Please keep the hallway clean and do not smoke)
What can I do for you?
Professor Wang, we want to know if you've had any recent contacts with members
of the Frontiers of Science.
Have you?
The Frontiers of Science is a very influential
international academic organization full of famous scholars.
And it's legal.
Why can't I have contact with it?
Look at the way you talk.
Did I say anything about it not being legal?
Did I say anything about you not being allowed to contact them?
Did I?
Please respect my privacy.
I don't need to answer your questions.
Your privacy, seriously?
You're a famous academic.
Don't you have a responsibility toward the public welfare?
As an average citizen, I also have the right to not answer.
Please leave.
Wait!
Did I permit you to close the door?
Give him the address and phone number.
You can come by in the afternoon.
What are you really after?
What are we really after? I...
Professor Wang.
Just now...
Please don't misunderstand.
There's an important meeting this afternoon,
to which several scholars and specialists are invited.
The general sent us to invite you.
I'm busy this afternoon.
I know.
You have an interview with two science magazines.
And your lab has a meeting at 3 o'clock.
Don't worry.
We have rescheduled those for you.
The general already spoke with the head of the Nanotechnology Research Center.
This is my ID.
OK.
I'll be there on time.
How could a scientist be so rude?
Captain Shi, let's go.
What's wrong with Shi Qiang?
The general specifically requested him.
I guess he must have some special skills.
How can a man like that be part of the Battle Command Center?
Battle Command Center?
Please wait here for a moment.
Someone will pick you up.
OK, thanks.
(Strengthen the monitoring)
(of the six field observatories of Purple Mountain Observatory,)
(including Delhi Radio Astronomical Observatory of Qinghai Province,)
(Xuyi Celestial Mechanics Observatory of Jiangsu Province,)
(Ganyu Solar Observatory of Jiangsu Province,)
(Honghe Observatory of Heilongjiang Province,)
(Qingdao Observatory of Shandong Province,)
(Yao'an Observatory of Yunnan Province.)
(The meeting will start in ten minutes.)
(All departments, please get ready)
Professor Wang.
(and attend the meeting on time.)
I'm sorry.
I was too rude this morning.
My leader criticized me and let me pick you up
in order to apologize to you.
What do you think of the place?
Do you think it's strange?
Everyone thinks it's strange when they first come here.
Why is such a secret organization set up in this place?
It was supposed to be an art museum.
But it was requisitioned before opening.
Come on, let me give you a tour.
Come.
I hear that you're researching some kind of new material?
Yes.
Nanomaterial.
I heard that a strand of that stuff could be used to lift up a truck.
If criminals steal some and make it into a knife,
can't they slice a truck in half with one stroke?
First, there's no need to even make it into a knife.
That kind of material can be made
into a line as thin as one-hundredth of a hair.
If you string it across a road,
a passing car would be sliced into two halves like cheese.
Second, what can't be used for criminal purposes?
Even a dull knife for descaling a fish can.
You're right.
Even a fish can be made into a weapon.
I handled a murder case once.
You know what the murder weapon was?
A frozen tilapia taken out from the freezer.
The spines along its back were like razors.
You're Captain Shi Qiang, right?
Yes.
That's me.
Did you ask me to the meeting just to talk about this?
No, no, no.
Nothing to do with those.
I was chatting with you and showing you around. Look.
This museum is enlightening.
It tells us that all human beings will eventually die.
After they die, they'll become big skeletons like this.
I don't agree with you.
We'll be cremated after we die.
And this is a fossil.
Right.
Do you think there will be sarira after scientists are cremated?
Come on.
Let's walk and chat.
Comrades, let me introduce our guests before the meeting.
This is a marines colonel of Country M in the North American Combat Zone,
Mr. Stanton.
This is an army colonel of Country T, Mr. Mike.
Meanwhile, they are liaisons of the
North American Combat Zone and the European Combat Zone.
These two comrades...
All these guys want is to get information out of us,
but they never tell us anything.
As for Oceania, Asia...
I've been here for a while,
and I still don't know anything, just like you.
...and the United Nations,
I won't introduce their representatives one by one.
Comrades, let's get started.
Yes.
Today,
Comrades.
- We call each other comrades here. (OS: - I will brief all comrades)
Comrades.
(OS: at the meeting.)
(Asian Defense Council) Of all the combat zones around the globe,
this one has become the focal point.
Recently, the enemy has intensified the pattern of attacks.
Their targets remain elite scientists.
(Professor David, a pioneer)
(in the detection of cosmic neutrino of Gadayork University,)
(committed suicide a month ago.)
(Hart, the astrophysicist of Country A, committed suicide 13 days ago.)
(Country T is the disaster zone of scientists' suicides.)
(Professor August in the field of precision spectroscopy,)
(Professor Bauer who engaged in nuclear structure study, and another three scientists)
(died one after another.)
Recently, the number of scientists that committed suicide around the globe
has increased sharply.
In front of you is a list of scientists that committed suicide.
Take a look.
Professor Wang, as you look through these names,
does anything strike you?
They are all famous scholars working at the forefront of...
(Yang Dong)
You know her?
You don't know her, but want to know her?
All the physicists on this list
have committed suicide in the last two months.
When did this happen?
Professor Wang means the last name.
Yang Dong, right?
Yang Dong was the last to commit suicide.
Two nights ago, she overdosed on sleeping pills.
She died very peacefully. No pain.
Why did they do this?
The only thing we can be sure of is
the same reason drove all of them to suicide.
Most scientists questioned in their suicide notes that physics didn't exist.
The document contains their suicide notes.
Everyone can examine them after the meeting.
Yang Dong's isn't included.
Dr. Ding, would you please show Yang Dong's note to Professor Wang?
Hers is the shortest and the most representative.
Thanks.
He was Yang's boyfriend.
I know.
You know?
He's a famous physicist who discovered the macroatom
while studying ball lightning.
All the evidence points to a single conclusion:
physics has never existed, and will never exist.
I know what I'm doing is irresponsible.
But I have no choice.
Physics doesn't exist.
Today we'll discuss an organization called
the Frontiers of Science.
According to our investigation,
most of the scientists who committed suicide
had some connection with the organization.
Dr. Ding, since you're a theoretical physicist,
can you give us more background on it?
I have no direct connection with the Frontiers of Science,
but it is famous in academia.
Its core goal is a response to the following:
since the second half of the twentieth century,
physics has gradually lost
the concision and simplicity of its classical theories.
Modern theoretical models have become more and more complex, vague, and uncertain.
So they want to use
the methods of science to discover the limits of science,
to try to find out if there is a limit
to how deeply and precisely science can know nature,
a boundary beyond which science cannot go.
But with the development of modern physics,
humans seem to have touched such a line.
Dr. Ding, could you make it clearer?
I've made it clear enough.
Dr. Ding, sorry for your loss.
♪Unity means power♪
♪The power is iron, the power is steel♪
♪But it is harder and stronger♪
♪Firing at Fascism, we fight♪
♪We'll wipe out all the systems not democratic♪
Let me introduce myself, Chang Weisi.
According to our investigation,
most of the scholars who committed suicide
had some connection with the Frontiers of Science,
and some were even members.
Of course, they've committed no crime.
We heard that they contacted you recently, right?
Yes.
They invited me to their gatherings.
Could you tell us more details?
Yeah.
Including the names of your contacts, the times and locations of meetings,
the content of your conversations, and if you exchanged letters or e-mails...
Shi, behave yourself.
This isn't an interrogation.
Professor Wang, go ahead.
The one who invited me was Shen Yufei, a foreign physicist.
She currently works for a foreign-invested company,
researching nanotech.
We met at a
(Shen Yufei) technical conference.
At the conference,
she introduced a few other physicists to me,
some Chinese, some foreign.
And then?
Then nothing.
We don't have many common topics.
Why?
My work is in applied research,
but they talked about fundamental physics.
I don't know much about theoretical matters.
So, basically, I was listening to their discussions and arguments.
But all of them were deep thinkers with novel points of view.
Though I was only listening, I felt that I was opening my mind.
Didn't they ask you to join them?
They did.
But my time and energy were limited, so I declined.
Tell the truth.
That's what I'm doing.
I don't need to hide anything from you.
If physics doesn't exist, what will happen to your nanotech?
I said my work was in applied research.
Even if physics doesn't exist, I can still carry on nano experiments.
Professor Wang, the main reason we invited you over today
is to ask you to join the organization.
We'd like to learn more about
the internal workings of the organization.
You want me to be a mole?
A mole!
What's so funny?
You're right.
We just want to know some internal information.
I'm sorry, General.
I cannot do this.
Professor Wang.
It's complicated to investigate this organization.
For us, it's like walking across thin ice.
Without your support, we cannot make any progress.
I am very busy at work.
I just don't have the time.
I'm so sorry.
Thank you for coming here today.
I'm sorry for wasting your time.
It's better this way.
I disagree with the plan anyway.
So many bookworms have already killed themselves.
If we send him, he'd be a meat dumpling thrown to the dogs.
The way you speak is not appropriate for a good police officer.
I'm not a good cop anyway.
We don't know why these scholars killed themselves.
You shouldn't speak of them so contemptuously.
Their minds have made so many contributions to humanity.
They're irreplaceable.
What do you mean?
You're saying they're better than me?
At least I wouldn't kill myself just because someone told me some bullshit.
Professor Wang, I have no confidence in you.
Not at all, really.
You think I would kill myself too?
I have to be concerned about your safety.
There's no need.
I would be much safer than you in such situations.
A person's ability to discern the truth
is directly proportional to his knowledge.
I'm not sure about that.
A man as vulnerable as you...
Shi!
Let him speak.
Maybe some people just can't understand what kind of person a scientist is.
Anyway, I must warn you not to go to the Frontiers of Science.
You mu